Quadruple Entendre ? I’ve got that beat: Xeno’s Sexdecuple Entendre

I was looking for examples of plays on words with as many meanings as possible and found this:

… it has been suggested that Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing used this ploy to present a surface level description of the play as well as a pun on the Elizabethan use of “nothing” as slang for vagina.

A triple entendre is a phrase that can be understood in any of three ways, such as in the cover of the 1981 Rush album Moving Pictures. The left side of the front cover shows a moving company carrying paintings out of a building. On the right side, people are shown crying because the pictures carried by the movers are emotionally “moving”. Finally, the back cover features a film crew making a “moving picture” of the whole scene.

Since “moving” can also mean selling (as in moving the merchandise) and since albums are often referenced by a single word in their title (for brevity), the bands use of an appealing multiple-entendre cover could be said to be for the purpose of “moving Pictures” – and as such be a quadruple entrendre.

As a songwriter, though not rap, I too seek the lyrical white whale:

The quadruple entendre is the white whale of rap. For lyrically mined hip-hop heads, there’s no greater feat a rapper can accomplish. Some say Eminem successfully employed the much vaunted figure of speech on “Fast Lane”. Others say Kanye did so on “Blame Game”. It’s a contentious issue that impassioned heads debate endlessly in forums and comment sections, due much impart to the inherent difficulty (some would say impossibility) of imbibing a turn of phrase with such a multifaceted meaning. But it’s that very difficulty, the challenge of accomplishing the impossible, that makes it so appealing to MCs (and listeners) seeking transcendence through technique. …